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Ken Starr has suggested bribery. But you’re jumping around here. We were discussing whether or not Trump conditioned the aid and a meeting on what amo...

What he says over the phone and what he actually has his subordinates (such as Giuliani) do are two very different things. Case in point: he says “I w...

“He had to announce the investigations, he didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it,” Sondland said. “I never heard, Mr. Goldman, anyone sa...

Sondland's opening testimony Also Kent's opening testimony specifically refers to "Giuliani’s efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations" ...

It's not just that. It was illegal for him to withhold aid at all, whatever the motivation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/state-d...

Definitely not.

New opening statement.

And misdemeanours.

Lying, obstruction, and witness tampering aren’t just mistakes. They’re crimes.

You do realize that the actual prosecutions are happening under the current administration, right? If you really think them unjust then you should be ...

One count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements – including lying to Congress – and one count of witness tampering...

Here’s the context: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/c-span-video-joe-biden-ukraine/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-50427731 So does the White House lie when it provides a summary of the President's calls, or is the me...

Third caveat: Trump didn't just ask for an investigation, he asked for a public announcement that there would be an investigation. That's for Trump's ...

I can accept that something external exists, but the question is if the everyday things we talk about are reducible to those external things. Does a w...

I don't repeat it. I explain how that even though when I talk to you I do so by reading words on a screen and writing on a keyboard, it's still the ca...

All three?

It's relevant when we consider that the historical disagreement between the direct and indirect realist was one of epistemology. To what extent do our...

I'm talking to you, not to words on my screen, but our conversation is via words on our screens. Your talk of "I talk about cats, not about models-of-...

I think the idea the OP is making is that to believe that something continues to exist when it's not being seen we must have some idea of what it woul...

There isn't an ignore feature?

My own take on philosophical realism is to start by assuming scientific realism, which presumably most philosophical realists will accept. But by what...

That doesn't really answer @"Marchesky"'s question. How do we know that that mountain existed before we knew about it?

Not at all. We've voted on things before. We used to be able to "like" posts but we voted to remove that.

Anyone here live in Thailand? I’m think of moving out there ‘cause I’m bored of England.

I'm hurt.

They could. Or they could hold them in inherent contempt of Congress. Or they could simply draft articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice as...

Again, the White House doesn't get to decide that they're invalid and unconstitutional. Unless and until a court rules that they're invalid and uncons...

If the White House isn't going to appeal to the court then they have no constitutional/legal authority to disobey a Congressional subpoena.

Also, a judge has already ruled that the inquiry is legal.

Has the White House appealed to a court and been granted a stay?

The White House doesn't get to decide that else the very premise of Congressional oversight is moot.

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@"Baden" https://www.irishnews.com/news/generalelection/2019/11/04/news/sinn-fe-in-will-not-contest-election-in-three-seats-1756091/

That's what they're doing now? H. Res. 660 If individuals in the White House have been subpoenaed then they're obligated to participate. See 2 U.S. Co...

I have no idea what you mean by this. There's an alleged crime (or abuse of power) that Congress now ought investigate. Just as there's an alleged cri...

When whistleblowers and government officials testify that the President's behaviour is inappropriate and possibly illegal then Congress ought carry ou...

The only way to know if they're unjust allegations is to carry out actual oversight in good faith. If they just assume he's innocent and so try to sab...

The second sentence doesn't follow from the first. That everyone is equally likely to be in a simulation isn't that everyone is in a simulation. If we...

If the GOP is just looking to defend the President then they're not doing their jobs. They should be carrying out their constitutional duty of Congres...

Isn't that how it always works in the House? When the Republicans were the majority they wouldn't let the Democrats subpoena witnesses. Republicans bl...

Not quite. It passed the second reading which means it moves onto the committee stage where the first round of amendments can be added. It's not until...

And that's a big reason for why Brexit shouldn't go ahead. Don't fuck with my healthcare.

The only way to do that is to pass a bill that commits to revoking Article 50 if a deal is not passed by a certain date, and I doubt there are the num...

Why do you say that? If Parliament won't vote to pass a deal or to revoke Article 50 then we'll leave without a deal when the EU stops granting an ext...

Cringeworthy.

There’s no crime named “collusion” just as there’s no crime named “stabbing someone in the face” but that’s not to say that stabbing someone in the fa...

The cynic in me gives a week before the fighting starts again.

Presumably there’a a reason it’s being held in the SCIF, and aren’t there legitimate reasons to limit who can go in? Or is it open to all Congress?

Which is hilarious, given that there are Republicans on the committee and so in the room already. Also this from Trey Gowdy in 2015: Although it’s not...